Books in the Wesleyan Poetry Series series

Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time.

National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir

Illuminating poetry that quiets and startles and troubles

The latest volume in Hillman's acclaimed meditations on the elements

Molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer

Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.

The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning.

Visionary poems lay claim to the power of the spinster

7/15/95 Paris Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language."

A poetic archive of subcultures rooted in the lives and language of the unsettled

Poetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poet

How we answer to love beneath the lash of history

Extraordinary retrospective spanning forty years

Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi's strongest book to date

Artist Ai Weiwei, at risk to his own safety, gathered the names of these children, and their names are the subject of this book. This act of poetic translation is both a heartbreaking tribute to people whose names have been erased, and a healing meditation on how language suggests a path forward.

The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you.

Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury.

Beauty and peril abound in new poems from this spirited poet

Identities are formed and broken in this unauthorized lyric biography

Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations of the social and political through the observations of the poem's speakers, interspersed with the language of social media, news reports, political speech, and the dialogue of friends, children, strangers, and politicians.